Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XLI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
THE SAME CONTINUED
We may not meet. I could not for pride's sake
Dissemble further, and I suffer pain,
A palpable distinct and physical ache,
When our eyes meet by accident, and when
I hear you talk in your pathetic strain
Which always moved me. Only yesterday,
As I was standing with a crowd of men
In the long corridor, you came my way
And chanced to stop, and thus by chance I heard
A score of phrases uttered in that sad
Half--suppliant voice which once my spirit stirred
To its foundations. Yet your theme was glad--
Strangers your hearers. What was in these spells
To move me still? A trick, and nothing else!
Scheme | ABCBDCEDEFGFGHI |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010 1111111111 0101001101 01000101001 11011110001 1111010101 11111010 1111010111 0011001111 0111011111 0111010011 111111101 1101011111 1011011011 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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